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PHILADELPHIA – Both Eagles coach Chip Kelly and general manager Howie Roseman said the players they selected last weekend shouldn't be judged for at least a few years.

It's clear that the results won't be noticeable this season. It's hard to imagine first-round pick Marcus Smith starting at outside linebacker right away, mainly because he's fairly new to the position, and the Eagles have veterans Trent Cole and Connor Barwin.

But Kelly fully expects Smith to replace one of them (most likely Cole, who'll turn 32 this year) by next season. It's the same with the other picks, who are battling established veterans at their positions. The only exception is second-round wide receiver Jordan Matthews, who'll likely take over as the slot receiver.

That makes this draft different from the previous two for the Eagles, raising many questions:

• Who were the six?: After the Eagles drafted Smith, Kelly said there were six players they would have taken at No. 22, hoping that at least one of them would be there. When none were, they traded back to No. 26 to get Smith and a third-round pick.

"I guess unfortunately for us there are other people in the league that liked the same six guys we did," Kelly said.

Kelly and Roseman wouldn't divulge those six players. Chances are, two of them went right before the Eagles picked. The Saints traded up to No. 20 to get wide receiver Brandin Cooks, and Green Bay took safety Ha Ha Clinton-Dix at No. 21.

The Eagles considered trading up to get one of those players, but they resisted because they wanted more draft picks, not fewer, in a deep draft. Still, it's easy to surmise that Clinton-Dix would have become an immediate starter at safety. It'll also be interesting to see how Cooks' career compares to that of Matthews, whom the Eagles took in the second round.

• Where's the beef?: The Eagles have three starting offensive linemen over the age of 31. Yet they didn't draft a lineman, which Roseman called "a dagger to the heart."

Roseman said the run on offensive linemen happened earlier than he expected, with 11 going in the third round alone. The Eagles have always valued offensive linemen, drafting 22 of them since 2000.

"That was like nothing I've ever seen in my life," Roseman said. "It was like player after player after player, and it was like all of a sudden we looked back up and our board was depleted, and we weren't going to reach.

"That hurt because we went in thinking that we'd get some guys."

The Eagles are left to develop young linemen like Matt Tobin, Dennis Kelly and Julian Vandervelde. They also have veteran backup Allen Barbre. They signed four undrafted free agents in Oregon State's Josh Andrews, Morgan State's Karim Barton, Southern Cal's Kevin Graf and Texas' Donald Hawkins.

• Are Henery's days numbered?: This is the first offseason in which the Eagles are bringing in a kicker to challenge Alex Henery, who made 82.1 percent of his field goals last season. While that number was respectable, it was well off the 88.9 percent he made as a rookie in 2011.

Vanderbilt kicker Carey Spear should provide a strong challenge. He was nicknamed "Murderleg" by a Vanderbilt blog. It wasn't for his kicking as much as his desire to hit opponents on special teams, launching himself at them as if he were a safety. Kelly has to love that.

As for kicking, Spear made 15 of 19 of his field goals (78.9 percent) last season. He led the SEC in field goal accuracy as a junior in 2012, hitting on 20 of 24 attempts (83.3 percent).

• Final evaluation: The rule of thumb is that a team has done well if it gets three starters out of a draft. The Eagles are ahead of the curve, getting four starters from each of the last two.

But it might take at least a year for the Eagles to get three starters from this draft. In addition to Smith and Matthews, the third future starter could be Jaylen Watkins at cornerback. Cary Williams will count $8.2 million against the Eagles' salary cap in 2015, which diminishes his chances to return.

That implies that Smith learns rather quickly and Watkins shows that he can handle big NFL receivers on the outside, neither of which is guaranteed. But the Eagles get a bump in their grade because they made three deals to get extra picks. The best was getting a future third- or fourth-round pick for Bryce Brown, whom they drafted in the seventh round in 2012.

• Grade: B-minus.

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